Urgent Request!! Did the Jeffersons live on the Upper East Side?

The song says East Side, but is the East Side different than the Upper East Side? Is there a lower east side?

by Anonymous

reply 47

06/16/2013

[quote] Is there a lower east side?

If only there were some way the OP could type "lower east side" into some kind of search engine and find out....

by Anonymous

reply 1

04/09/2013

85th and Third. UES. But not really.

by Anonymous

reply 3

04/09/2013

Yorkville. Part of Upper Eaast Side? Dunno.

by Anonymous

reply 4

04/09/2013

Yes. They moved on up to the Upper East Side of Omaha.

by Anonymous

reply 5

04/09/2013

I think it was the east side of Tuckahoe, NY.

by Anonymous

reply 6

04/09/2013

Is it really true that on the Upper East Side fish don't fry in the kitchen and beans don't burn on the grill?

by Anonymous

reply 7

04/09/2013

Fish fry in my kitchen, and I live in a nice upper easy side apartment.

by Anonymous

reply 8

04/09/2013

The only authentic thing about the show was the Jefferson's tacky, all white, "all new" postwar high rise apartment interior. Awful, and totally lacking in character, just like many of them in real life.

by Anonymous

reply 9

04/09/2013

Flyover thread.

[quote]Is there a lower east side?

Now I've heard everything.

by Anonymous

reply 10

04/09/2013

Year OP, the Jeffersons lived on the Upper East Side, which indeed has enclaves of very wealthy people.

Why you chose DL to ask that question is beyond me. The shop bottom, broke ass bitches who post here can only aspire to such heights.

by Anonymous

reply 11

04/09/2013

R2 Cooze?

WTF?

by Anonymous

reply 12

04/09/2013

Upper East Side Boundaries: Central Park-Fifth Avenue to the East River from 59th to 96th, which includes Yorkville where the Jefferson's lived.

The Lower East Side historically is the area from 14th to Canal Street from Broadway to the East River. In the 60s realtors created "The East Village" from 14th to Houston as a way to charge more for tenement apartments. Today the LES is thought of as the area below Houston which incldues Chinatown.

by Anonymous

reply 13

04/09/2013

I'd love to know what in OP's life could possibly make this an "urgent" request?

by Anonymous

reply 14

04/09/2013

I'd like to know why this thread is considered "URGENT"?

by Anonymous

reply 15

04/09/2013

[quote]Why you chose DL to ask that question is beyond me. The shop bottom, broke ass bitches who post here can only aspire to such heights.

Who do you think was posing the question in the first place?

by Anonymous

reply 16

04/09/2013

Is the UN considered Yorkville?

by Anonymous

reply 17

04/09/2013

Hit her, Willona!

by Anonymous

reply 18

04/09/2013

r17, the United Nations is between 42nd and 49th Streets at the East River. The area from 34th to 59th is Midtown. The UN is in the Turtle Bay area of Midtown East.

by Anonymous

reply 19

04/09/2013

It is all called the upper east side but unless you are on the park....it really isn't that upper (in terms of the quality of the people)....The buildings I grew up in would NEVER have allowed people like The Jeffersons in.

by Anonymous

reply 20

04/09/2013

We're moving on up!

by Anonymous

reply 21

04/10/2013

R20 is right. The only culluds on the Upper East Side in them days wuz the help, no matter how Liberal a New Yawker you wuz.

by Anonymous

reply 22

04/10/2013

The designer of the Jeffersons apartment set deliberately scaled it low to the ground to accommodate the several short principal cast members. He also decided to portray the Jeffersons as having somewhat gaudy, uncultivated taste.

It seems like they could have come up with a better name than The Help Center, but I guess it was the 70s and people didn't get too complicated.

by Anonymous

reply 28

04/10/2013

R19 NYC Historian, what do you call the section between 14th and 34th? Isn't that also called Midtown?

by Anonymous

reply 29

04/10/2013

Chelsea Heights.

by Anonymous

reply 30

04/10/2013

Why is this an urgent request?

by Anonymous

reply 31

04/10/2013

r29, that's (loosely) Gramercy up to 23rd, plus the huge Stuyvessant Town development on the river; and Kip's Bay 23rd to 34th. Not Midtown East at all.

by Anonymous

reply 32

04/10/2013

Yes OP on the Upper East Side

In that deluxe apartment in the sky

by Anonymous

reply 33

04/10/2013

My family used to live on the upper East side in the 70's and 80's. There were blacks living there actually, but not many.

by Anonymous

reply 34

04/10/2013

Living in.

by Anonymous

reply 35

04/10/2013

From ask yahoo:

[quote]According to several sites, the Jeffersons lived in a building called "Colby East." The building that appears in the show's intro is located at 185 East 85th Street in Manhattan.

And, yes, the fact that the OP is an uneducated twat not to know there is a Lower East Side. American history courses in high school have used the term widely for 75 years in talking about European immigration to America. And anyone who watches television knows the general location of Midtown and the Upper East Side.

Period.

by Anonymous

reply 36

04/10/2013

You're wrong R36. History books teach about The Bowery, but not about the Lower East Side. That term is rather recent.

by Anonymous

reply 37

04/11/2013

What was that word, R37?

by Anonymous

reply 38

04/11/2013

Here's another urgent question. Did Florence live in the apartment? If so, where was her room? I can't remember.

by Anonymous

reply 39

04/11/2013

Here's the floor plan, in case you urgently need to produce a replica.

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